Great Moments in Psychiatric Disorders

Moon's Dust Hides a Throbbing Heart

William J. Broad of the NYT appears to have some sort of sexual hangup involving the moon.

It takes two and a half seconds for a laser beam to flash from Earth to the Moon and back again. But it has taken 33 years of doing such experiments for scientists to glimpse what may be the Moon's greatest secret: that far beneath its cold craters and rocky landscape lies a heart that is warm and yielding.

Other words included in this story: "born", "sensitive", "pliable", "bulging", "melted heart", "Love numbers".

Seriously, current astronomical theory holds that the moon is the product of a collision between a rogue planet and the Earth in the very early days of the solar system. Scientists are hoping to discover that the lunar core is partially molten, which would reinforce the theory.